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Ask HN: Monitoring Solution for VMs and Containers

by sushidev on 8/3/22, 6:58 PM with 4 comments

For a small fleet of VMs, hardware servers, databases, applications, web servers... Prometheus, Zabbix, anything else you'd recommend? I'm looking for a low maintenance on premises solution that is free and open source..
  • by hagen1778 on 8/8/22, 8:00 AM

    I'd recommend taking a look at VictoriaMetrics: open source monitoring solution. It doesn't support logs collection, but for metrics is just great. Disclaimer: I work for VictoriaMetrics.
  • by atmosx on 8/3/22, 9:00 PM

    You can try NetData, especially for live systems monitoring.
  • by sushidev on 8/3/22, 9:56 PM

    I've done some more research.. looks like Prometheus + Loki could be the options of choice for me.. still not finished researching
  • by warrenm on 8/4/22, 12:30 PM

    What do you want to "monitor"? Applications? Log files? Port statuses? Traffic?